Beautician&#39;s appliance



Oct. 8, 1968 J. R. DE ROSE BEAUTICIAN'S APPLIANCE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 FiledAug. 29, 1963 V v INVENTOR.

' JOHN/i M20 Oct. 8, 1968 J. R. DE ROSE 3,404,944

I I 'BEAUTICIAN'S APPLIANCE Filed Aug. 29, 1953 2 Sheets-Sheet 2INVENTOR. JOHN R D E 205 E ATTOE/VEYS United States Patent 3,404,944BEAUTICIANS APPLIANCE John R. De, Rose, Scranton Road, Hamburg, N.Y.14075 Filed Aug. 29, 19 63, Ser. No. 305,420

1 Claim. (CI. 21-83) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Hair rollers are stackedupon a false bottom of a casing and disinfectant located below the falsebottom disinfects the rollers by fumes freely circulating to the spaceabove the false bottom.

This invention relates to beauticians appliances, and more particularlyto means for storing and dispensing and sterilizing hair curling devicesof the so-called roller type.

'In the beauticians industry it is currently popular to train thecustomers hair looks into curled form by first softening the hairstrands by some appropriate treatment and then winding them aboutcylindrical members of the type known in the trade as rollers. Then whenthe rollers are removed by the rolled hair locks remain in curledcondition. In consequence the present day beautician shop is faced witha problem concerning the intermediate storage and handling of a largenumber of rollers, which must be kept readily available to the operatorin a variety of different sizes and in continuously sterile condition.

It is a primary object of the present invention to provide an improvedmagazine type device for conveniently storing and maintaining in readilyavailable position a plurality of variously sized rollers of the typereferred to. Other objects and advantages of the invention will appearfrom thespecification hereinafter and the accompanying drawing, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a roller storage device of thepresent invention with the cover portion thereof removed;

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the plane of line 22, as shown inFIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view corresponding to FIG. 1, but showing the magazinedevice of the invention with the cover member in position thereon;

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the plane of line 4-4 of FIG. 3;and

FIG. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view, on slightly reduced scale, takenalong line 5-5 of FIG. 3.

The device of the invention is in the form of a compact magazine ofexternally pleasing appearance, and which is adapted to store therewithin large numbers of variously sized rollers in a sterilizingatmosphere, while said rollers are presented to the view of the operatorin readily available position at all times.

As shown in the drawing herewith the invention comprises a cabinetdevice indicated generally at comprising a bottom plate 12; a back plate14; and opposite end plates 1616. As shown best in FIGS. 1, 2, 4 thestructure'includes a rearwardly and downwardly sloping false bottomplate 18 vertically spaced above the cabinet bottom plate 12 andcentrally reinforced by a vertical abutment 20 (FIGS. 1, 2). Thus, thespace beneath the false bottom plate 18 provides a storage facility fora supply of cotton (or other suitable absorbent batt material) asindicated-at 22 (FIG. 4) which may be fromtime to time saturated with asuitable formaldehyde solution or the like, so that fumes emanatingtherefrom will permeate the interior of the cabinet structure asindicated by the gas circulation arrows shown in FIG. 4.

Thus, it will be appreciated that an assortment of rollers of variousdimensions and diameters as illustrated at 25 in FIGS. 1, 2, 4 may beconveniently stacked on top of the false bottom 18 by the operator as heremoves the rollers from a hairdressing operation. The rollers are thusdisposed in gravity-feeding relation within the cabinet in such manneras to be readily available for selection by the operator for use in asubsequent hairdressing operation. Because of the sloping arrangement ofthe false bottom plate 18, the rollers automatically reside ingravity-retained position within the cabinet, while their open front endportions are exposed to the view of the operator. Hence he may readilywithdraw from the cabinet any desired size roller by simply slipfittinghis finger into the front end thereof, and then pulling the rollerforwardly and outwardly away from the stack of rollers within thecasing.

As shown in FIGS. 3, 4, 5, a top-front closure device for the cabinet isprovided to comprise a front wall portion 26 and a top portion 28 havingat its rear edge a downwardly turning flange 30 to assist in locatingthe cover member in position on the cabinet. Also, as shown in FIGS. 5,4, the cover plate portion 28 will preferably include depending sideflanges 3232 arranged to slip-fit inside of the side Walls 16-16 of thecabinet to assist in stabilizing the cover member when in position onthe cabinet.

Thus it will be appreciated that in between uses of the rollers thecover device may be placed in cabinetclosing position whereby theantiseptic fumes from the batting stored under the false bottom platewill permeate the interior of the cabinet and saturate the rollersstored therein. Then, when it is desired to re-employ the rollers inanother hair dressing operation, the cabinet cover will be removed toexpose the rollers to open view as shown in FIG. 1 of the drawingtherewith. Rollers of desired size may then be readily withdrawn at willby the operator, and subsequently replaced when the hairdressingoperation is finished. Thus, an improved facility is provided for theconvenience of the operator whereby to store the rollers when not in usein tidy and compact fashion, while at the same time subjecting them tosterilization between uses.

I claim:

1. A beauticians appliance for sterilizing and storing in readilyselectable manner a plurality of hairdressing rollers, said appliancecomprising a casing having bottom, back and end wall portions, the topedges of said back and end wall portions lying in the same plane and thefront edges of said end walls lying in the same plane,

a false bottom wall in said casing extending between and fixed to saidend wall portions, said false bottom Wall having a front edge which iscoplanar with said front edges of the end wall portions and having arear edge which is spaced from said back wall portion, said false bottomwall being spaced above said bottom wall portion of the casing andinclining rearwardly and downwardly toward said back wall portion,

a separate cover for the casing, said cover comprising a top whichengages said top edges of said end and back wall portions and a frontwall which engages said front edges of said end wall portions and saidfront edge of the false bottom wall to divided the interior of thecasing into upper and lower regions above and below said false bottomwall which are in communication only through the spacing between therear edge of the false bottom wall and said back wall portion of thecasing,

a quantity of absorbent material disposed beneath said References Citedfalse Wall, UNITED STATES PATENTS a volatile liquid disinfectantsaturating said absorbent material whereby disinfectant fumes maycirculate 903,565 11/1908 f 312290 through said space between the rearedge of the 5 111201924 12/1914 Glbbons false bottom wall and the backwall portion of 1,477,634 12/1923 Connor 2,479,592 8/1949 Tomczak 3l2290the casing when said cover is in closing position,

whereby end portions of rollers supported on the false bottom wall areexposed to the circulation of MORRIS WOLK Pnmmy Exammer' disinfectantfumes. 10 R. M. REESE, Assistant Examiner.

